Primary carcinosarcoma of the vagina

Pathology International

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 106-110

  Shibata, Rie ^a   Umezawa, Akihiro ^a   Takehara, Kyoko ^a   Aoki, Daisuke ^a   Nozawa, Shiro ^a   Hata, Jun Ichi ^a,b  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carcinosarcoma; Malignant mixed mullelian tumor; Vagina

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ANAPLASTIC CARCINOMA; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CARCINOSARCOMA; CASE REPORT; CHONDROSARCOMA; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYSTERECTOMY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; UTERUS CANCER; VAGINA CARCINOMA; VAGINA EPITHELIUM;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; CARCINOSARCOMA; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; UTERINE NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0037297840     PISSN: 13205463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1827.2003.01442.x     Document Type: Article

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